I'm laying down the ground work for a more customisable matrix setup and I've come across a few more requests.

The main one:
I'd like to be able to turn channels on and off from the external application. Doesn't sound so hard, but i want to be able to turn them on and off without them entering the editor. Something like a yellow look value that wont hold deltas and could be recorded if nessicary but not by default.

This would allow the apps to be used as stand alone playback areas, with timed, scripted effects. The workaround now is to actually create a look for each chanel but that means have 500 looks on one page. Not an entirley effecient.

Also when using the HC.GetCurrentSelectionSet on a button it makes me click twice before returning a value. Why could that be? I've found a workaround but it's not so pretty.

Last edited by tom on Wed Feb 11, 2009 10:56 am, edited 1 time in total.

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range 1 thru 5
inuse
fixture_num_match - 1 even though it's just a dimmer
PGCLS i added them all just to see if anything would return. Can I just use I for intensity?
start_index, max_num_fixtures_returned = 1 and 1
and then the property - 'value'

This only returns me a selection value. Do i have to pass that value through a regular getproperty?

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Nederlands Dans Theater.

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The 'value' is incorrect -- the returned properties can be any of these:

'index', 'intensity', 'number', 'state' , 'patch', 'mlname'

As for the other request ( a way to set values without a delta) I have it mostly done. It leaves the attribute captured (red). I wanted to leave them yellow (from a look/channel) -- but it's a can of worms having to do with timeout.

The Function will be HC.AttributeFadeCapture(...) -- same signature as HC.AttributeFade(...) Due in 10.5.14

It does'nt seem to pick up levels from effects. Editor, cues and looks are all fine but nothing from effects. If i put an effect on a look it'll read the level of the fixture that it would have been on had there been no effect.

Light palette : classic
Nederlands Dans Theater.

"Come forth and thy shalt win eternal happiness", but he came fifth, so he won an electric toaster.